“To be honest I was surprised at how good it was,” Dr. Cooper said during an interview with Wrap.

“Like many other people I had the prejudice that maybe its not even much,” the UWI professor added. “But one of the things I was surprised about was Kartel’s attitude towards abortion and I know this is a very delicate issue in Jamaica and most deejays condemn women who do abortion… But Vybz Kartel has a very sophisticated view of it in my mind as feminist.”

Dr. Cooper, who is a professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, also opens up about her controversial article published in the Gleaner last month.